Marni Pyke
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Prepare to share the road with mega-beamsJan 13, 2020 12:00 am - Drivers on some local tollways and expressways should prepare to share the road with some concrete behemoths in the coming weeks. Starting Tuesday, more than 230 concret...
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Ex-Illinois National Guard leader from Arlington Heights: We're on edge of a precipice with IranJan 08, 2020 4:30 am - As tensions between the United States and Iran escalate, there's no play book for what's ahead, former Illinois National Guard Adjutant General David Harris said. "We're...
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Machines that don't give change add $152,000 to Illinois tollway coffersJan 06, 2020 4:30 am - Keeping the change from cash-paying customers is adding up for the Illinois tollway. The agency pocketed about $152,000 extra in 2019 from people without I-PASS accounts...
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'Nothing is more important to me': Delegate candidates push petitions, pump up prospective voters in the suburbsJan 02, 2020 4:30 am - Wanted: Energetic people with sufficient chutzpah to walk up to complete strangers and start talking politics. Must like walking in the cold. No pay or recognition, but ...
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Krishnamoorthi reflects on tumultuous 2019 in politicsJan 01, 2020 12:00 am - House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence hearings riveted Americans to their screens in 2019 as witnesses like special prosecutor Robert Mueller made history. "B...
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Transportation experts' 2020 forecast: More roadwork, more scooters, more transit ridersDec 30, 2019 4:30 am - E-scooters in the suburbs, a beatdown on double-parking delivery trucks and Metra in the driver's seat on UP tracks? If our prognosticators say it's going to happen, it ...
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Drivers' fees, taxes spiking in 2020 to pay for roads, infrastructureDec 23, 2019 4:30 am - Two suburbanites at a secretary of state facility in Lombard last week took opposite views on a looming hike in vehicle registration fees to pay for infrastructure. “It'...
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Two senators from Illinois compare Trump impeachment to Clinton'sDec 21, 2019 12:00 am - Will civility win out in the U.S. Senate during the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump as it did with President Bill Clinton? The two U.S. senators from Illinoi...
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UP no longer wants to run lines for MetraDec 20, 2019 12:00 am - Will 2020 be the year Metra begins operating three Union Pacific Railroad commuter routes in its own right? Freight railroad Union Pacific currently runs commuter trains...
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The suburbs' fateful role in three presidential impeachmentsDec 14, 2019 12:00 am - Lawmakers' remarks in 1974, 1998, 2019 may sound a lot alike